Катерине has to open a gate in the curved Seashore straight at school from Черномора. A spiteful hop-o'-my-thumb carries away Катерину in the palace and tries to subordinate her to the will. She knows, from where a squirrel from a fairy-tale about a tsar Гвидоне took gold nuts, and able to feel itself in place of tsar Мидаса, that converted everything into gold. But, for her visits will appear most difficult in cities and intermingling with fairy-tale tsars, each of that tries to lead by a tale-teller. Катерине will have to rescue the friend of Wolf from his former hostess, and to rescue Stepan from a pitfall in that he will be sent by a young and spiteful tsarevna. A tale-teller will teach to sing Змея-Горыныча, and able to destroy the enormous magic mirror of Кащея, to free the Fire-bird caught by icy villain. Hikes in fog will help to awaken the great number of fairy-tales, and flight on the Glass mountain will give an opportunity to save a czarevitch that ягишна converted into a monster with draconian a muzzle. And расколдовав a czarevitch, Катерине willy-nilly has to search to him fiancee and to think of a fairy-tale.